Urban footprint processor-Fully automated processing chain generating settlement masks from global data of the TanDEM-X mission

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1617-1621

  Esch, T ^a   Marconcini, M ^a   Felbier, A ^a   Roth, A ^a   Heldens, W ^a   Huber, M ^a   Schwinger, M ^a   Taubenbock, H ^a   Muller, A ^a   Dech, S ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automation; global mapping; settlements pattern; TerraSAR X add on for Digital Elevation Measurement (TanDEM X); texture; urbanization

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCESSING; BACKSCATTERING AMPLITUDE; DIGITAL ELEVATION; GLOBAL MAPPING; SETTLEMENTS PATTERN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; URBANIZATION;

AUTOMATION; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84886588451     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2272953     Document Type: Article

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